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chapter thirty-eight ( the last olympian ) ❝ the last olympian! ❞
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Ididn't find Percy the next morning. He wasn't in his cabin, he wasn't in the Big House, or at the lagoon, or with the horses. I checked the sword arena only to find that Mrs O'Leary was also gone. For a second, I got scared that he had actually left to go on vacation with Rachel, and I thought about stabbing something. Why couldn't I just tell him the truth? That I was scared? Why do I have to yell at everything expecting that to solve it?! When Juniper told me he had gone off with Nico, it didn't make me feel any better.
I sat there, in the sword arena, for perhaps the rest of the day, waiting for him to come back. I felt stupid, but I was worried. I tried to Iris Message him, perhaps used about ten drachma's, but none answered. I grew frustrated━he was completely ghosting me! With Iris Messages!
It was the afternoon when Annabeth came rushing into the sword arena with her phone. I immediately stood up, my stomach twisting as she said, "It's Percy━"
"What? Is he okay? What's happening?" I rushed up to her.
She was pale, "He sent a message━Luke is advancing on Manhattan to get to Olympus. He wants us ready to fight. The battle, Claire, it's starting."
My stomach dropped. "Oh, gods..." I murmured, before together, we ran up towards the Big House to let Chiron and Hannah know. As soon as we did, it was a rush to get everyone ready and in the vans to drive up to meet Percy. We rallied forty campers in all━none of which were children of Ares, which made me furious. Cain met up with Annabeth and I, and when we told him what had happened, he had a look on his face as if he knew exactly what Percy had done. I narrowed my eyes at him, but he didn't explain. (That didn't help my mood).
We were almost to the Queens Midtown Tunnel when Annabeth got another call. She answered, and I said, "Is that Percy?" she nodded, and before she could say anything else, I snatched the phone from her and placed it to my ear. The van we sat in━the first one, driven my Argus with all the cabin counsellors, Cain, Hannah, Chiron and the Apollo and Athena kids, rumbled along the road.
"Where have you been?!" I snapped into the phone. "I sent you ten Iris Messages, Jackson!"
"Hey!" he replied, a little flustered at my tone. "I sent Annabeth a message!"
"Your message said almost nothing! We've been worried sick!"
"I'll fill you in later," he promised me. "Where are you?"
